September 17, 2013: Human Rights Program launch reception, 3:30-5:30pm, University Club. If you are interested in attending, please contact Sumudu Atapattu.

September 26, 2013:"Bhopal: Almost 30 years on - Legal, Environmental, and Human Rights Aspects"
by Lalita du Perron (Center for South Asia) and Sumudu Atapattu (Global
Legal Studies Center), inaugural event of the Human Rights Program's
Environment Cluster and part of the Center for South Asia Fall Lecture
Series, Noon-1:00pm, 206 Ingraham Hall. All are welcome.

October 3, 2013: "Stripping of the Trust: A Study in Legal Evolution by
Professor Adam Sl Hofri-Winogradow, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem and Visiting scholar, Georgetown Law Center, faculty
workshop hosted by Professor Mitra Sharafi, co-sponsored by ILS and GLS,
noon-1:15pm, Lubar Commons.

Description: The use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict
has been confirmed by the United Nations. Even before, there has been a
debate about some U.S. military response even in the absence of a
Security Council authorization. The presentation will take up the
prohibition of the use of force, will look into the intricacies of the
Syrian civil war, and discuss options to lawfully respond in light of a
split international community.

October 14, 2013:"The Subversion of State-to-state Arbitration under Bilateral Investment Treaties"
by Professor Jarrod Wong (University of the Pacific-McGeorge School of
Law), hosted by Professor Jason Yackee and sponsored by the East Asian
Legal Studies Center and GLS, noon-1:15pm, Lubar Commons (7200 Law), a
light lunch will be served on a first come, first served basis.

October 14, 2013: "Planning, Law, and Property Rights: A U.S.-European Cross-National Contemplation"
by Professor Richard K. Nortan, Urban and Regional Planning Program,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 4:00-6:00pm, Lubar Commons (7200
Law), sponsored by the European Union Center for Excellence, the Center
for European Studies, the Global Legal Studies Center and the Department
of Urban and Regional Planning. The lecture will be followed by a
reception.

October 24, 2013:"Rights on the Left? Social Movements, Law and Lawyers after 1968"
by Professor Liora Isarel (Associate Professor of Sociology, L’École
des hautes étudese en sciences sociales (EHESS), Deputy Director of the
Centre Maurice Halbwachs and elected member of the Scientific Council of
EHESS), Noon-1:15pm, sponsored by GLS in its
speaker series on "Comparative EU Law", co-sponsored by the EUCE, Center
for European Studies, GLS, ILS and the Lectures Committee. A light
lunch will be served on a first come, first served basis.

Description of the lecture: Professor Israel explores the role
law and lawyers have played in social movements in France since the
demonstrations of 1968. She argues that a politics of rights, developed
by lawyers and activists, has played an important role in the
mobilization of social movements and has contributed to policy
successes. Challenging conventional accounts of the rise of
rights-consciousness in French politics, she explains that practicing
lawyers and movement activists have been more important than courts or
EU Law.

Description of the lecture: In May 2012, Brazil inaugurated a national truth commission to
investigate cases of political torture, murder, and disappearance that
occurred during the period of military dictatorship (1964-1985). The
national truth commission and two ongoing federal reparations programs
are the most visible examples of how Brazil has been making a turn to
memory, yet state policy is far from the only way that a society
attempts to reckon with an authoritarian past. Another is through
cultural production. This talk proposes a theory about how cultural
works interact with state policies related to human rights memory in
Brazil and presents an argument for why analyses of such state policies
need to take cultural production into account.

November 7, 2013: "Crafting an International Legal Framework to Combat Sexual Violence in Conflict,"
by Zainub Bangura, the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in
Conflict and former health minister in Sierra Leone, 12-1, location:
Lubar Commons, chaired by Professor Helen Kinsella (Political Science,
UW-Madison), a light lunch served on a first come, first served basis,
multiple sponsors including the violence cluster of the Human Rights
Program.

December 3, 2013: HRP, Land and Water Cluster, Roundtable on research, 1:30-3:00pm, 206 Ingraham Hall. Each
cluster member will present his/her research on water and or land as it
relates to human rights (10 minutes each). The first three presentations
(30 minutes) will be followed by 15 minutes of discussion about the
relationships and intersections between them. The second round will have
another three 10-minute presentations followed by 15 minutes of
discussion. This will include graduate students as well.